@Rui Miguel Silva Seabra:
I clearly see that you didn't get my point. Furthermore, your arguments and choice of language are neither helpful nor mature.
Unfortunately, you've missed that I wasn't complaining - I'm looking for answers and reasonable arguments to present to others who stumble across these things and do not have time or the technical background to understand - or even fix - it.
Most of your replies don't help anyone.
"I don't give a crap about Windows, all my external disks are
formatted with ext3."
Hm... guess what? My disks are all ext3, too! But what about other people, if they'd like to use their external disk to move data around?
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"Send patches fixing those applications, or get someone else to do
it faster (mybe by paying them, for instance)."
That's a nice, but unrealistic answer. We're not talking about a small fix for a single application here.
Please don't bother to reply unless you're willing to calm down a bit and offer useful, constructive approaches.
Pb